pic: Seen at Fall Classic: Side

[JesseK]

It would be interesting to see video of the drive in action, especially considering it didn't have to deal with a changing center of gravity w.r.t. totes. A closed frame design may alleviate some of the challenges with the long chain runs.

For a game with exclusion/safe zones, this setup could be interesting for specific robots - like 2012/2013, if you discount the balancing in 2012. Or even perhaps for a 2014 robot with a specific team/strategy mindset - after all, the Killer Bees proved all-omni was plausible in a defense-heavy game.

I'm all for reducing the number of wheels required to play

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by JesseK

- after all, the Killer Bees proved all-omni was plausible in a defense-heavy game.

Off topic, but what 33 actually demonstrated is that floating like a butterfly can be a winning tactic, IF you can also sting like a bee.* This requires a very good driver. Which they had.

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Muhammad Ali demonstrated the same thing 40 years earlier, in a different sport.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

Off topic, but what 33 actually demonstrated is that floating like a butterfly can be a winning tactic, IF you can also sting like a bee.* This requires a very good driver. Which they had.

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Muhammad Ali demonstrated the same thing 40 years earlier, in a different sport.

You also have to be pretty doing it...